In Next.js, there may be situations where you need to manually force a page refresh. Whether you are working within a component using the useRouter hook or in a utility function, this guide will show you how to achieve a page refresh in both scenarios. Using the useRouter Hook To force a page refresh within a component using the useRouter hook, follow these steps: import { useRouter } from 'next/router' // ....
In this blog post, we’ll explore how to use the next/router package to control routes in Next.js. We’ll focus on programmatic routing changes, using the Next.js Router directly. Linking pages in Next.js using the Link component is a convenient way to handle routing declaratively. However, there are cases where you need to trigger a routing change programmatically. To do this, we can access the Next.js Router provided by the next/router package and call its push() method....
When working with links in Next.js, it’s important to determine the current URL and assign a class to the active link so that it can be styled differently. This is particularly useful in the site header. Unfortunately, the default Link component provided by next/link doesn’t handle this automatically. However, there are two techniques that we can use to achieve this behavior. The first technique is to add the logic to the children of the Link component....